Such things are, by the author of 'Recommended to mercy'. |
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... Miss Llewellen and her not over- willing escort , Mr. Raynham Fletcher - or Fletcher per se , as the owner of the joint names greatly preferred being called - we left the pair then of middle - aged pedes- trians , toiling up the steep ...
... Miss Llewellen and her not over- willing escort , Mr. Raynham Fletcher - or Fletcher per se , as the owner of the joint names greatly preferred being called - we left the pair then of middle - aged pedes- trians , toiling up the steep ...
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... Miss Llewellen , you will pity every one , and I firmly believe that if you were being led to execution , you'd be sorry for the hangman , and apologize for the trouble you were giving . ' 6 Perhaps I should , my dear . We cannot say ...
... Miss Llewellen , you will pity every one , and I firmly believe that if you were being led to execution , you'd be sorry for the hangman , and apologize for the trouble you were giving . ' 6 Perhaps I should , my dear . We cannot say ...
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... Miss Llewellen's niece . ' ' What a number of misses ! ' exclaimed Miss Graham . And now , do tell me who is Miss Llewellen ? ' Susan felt very angry at this rude cross- questioning , but she was spared the annoy- ance of replying by ...
... Miss Llewellen's niece . ' ' What a number of misses ! ' exclaimed Miss Graham . And now , do tell me who is Miss Llewellen ? ' Susan felt very angry at this rude cross- questioning , but she was spared the annoy- ance of replying by ...
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... Miss Llewellen was terribly startled by this announcement . She had not heard Colonel Aylmer say that he should go on board his yacht to fetch a better ' glass ' for Susan , and the stupid chaff she heard was Greek to her . She had a ...
... Miss Llewellen was terribly startled by this announcement . She had not heard Colonel Aylmer say that he should go on board his yacht to fetch a better ' glass ' for Susan , and the stupid chaff she heard was Greek to her . She had a ...
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... , repented her sorely of her momentary attack of piety , and sat amongst her acquaintances looking far more foolish than was her wont . Miss Llewellen was still shaking with the combined effects of fear and 26 Such Things are .
... , repented her sorely of her momentary attack of piety , and sat amongst her acquaintances looking far more foolish than was her wont . Miss Llewellen was still shaking with the combined effects of fear and 26 Such Things are .
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Adolphus alarm amongst Annesley Annesley's Ashington asked awhile began better called CHAPTER child Chrissy's Christina Colonel Aylmer comfort companion course cross-stitch dark darling dear Cousin Chrissy dear Miss Llewellen Dolly drawing-room dread Drummond ears eyes face fancy fear feel felt Florence Harley fool gentle gentleman Gerald girl hand happy Harley's heard heart hope Jephson knew laugh lips listening look Lord George lover Maggie Maggie's major-domo Margaret marriage married Mayford mind Miss Brigham Miss Chrissy Miss Christina's mortification nervous ness never night old maid Olive once Orchard Street pale perhaps poor Portsmouth pre-Raphaelite quiet Raynham Fletcher remarked reply Ryde seemed short silence smile sound speak spirits STAMFORD STREET strange sure Susan tell there's thing Thomson thought tion trembling trust truth turn voice waiting walk whilst whispered wish woman women words yacht young ladies
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Էջ 136 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth her deathbed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying. Come, months, come away, From November to May, In your saddest array; Follow the bier Of the dead cold year, And like dim shadows watch by her sepulchre. The chill rain is falling, the...
Էջ 166 - Of the hearts that daily break, Of the tears that hourly fall, Of the many, many troubles of life, That grieve this earthly ball...
Էջ 42 - Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; Price of many a crime untold ; Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold...
Էջ 233 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Էջ 93 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Էջ 65 - Me and my friends here, this delightful night, That power itself has not one half the might Of gentleness. 'Tis want to all true wealth ; The uneasy madman's force, to the wise health ; Blind downward beating, to the eyes that see ; Noise to persuasion, doubt to certainty...
Էջ 28 - Nothing ! if they bite and kick? Out with it, Dunciad ! let the secret pass, That secret to each fool, that he's an ass : The truth once told (and wherefore should we lie ?) The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
Էջ 198 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Էջ 93 - But ever and anon of griefs subdued There comes a token like a Scorpion's sting, Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever...
Էջ 78 - The clodded earth goes up in sweet-breathed flowers ; In music dies poor human speech, And into beauty blow those hearts of ours, When Love is born in each.